How much is a cup of flour?

brian ireland

Gonna cook a few things from the Big Oven website but they use American measures. Cups of flour and the like. How much flour is that?

SadieSue

I did a quick google and the site I clicked on says a cup of flour is equal to 125g.

brian ireland

SadieSue wrote: »

I did a quick google and the site I clicked on says a cup of flour is equal to 125g.

Thanks

brian ireland

done a google myself and says 113G


flour
volume
(cups) flour
weight
(ounces) flour
weight
(grams)
0.25 1.0 28
0.50 2.0 57
0.75 3.0 85
1.0 4.0 113
1.25 5.0 142
1.50 6.0 170
1.75 7.0 198
2.0 8.0 226
flour
volume
(cups) flour
weight
(ounces) flour
weight
(grams)
2.25 9.0 255
2.50 10.0 283
2.75 11.0 311
3.0 12.0 340
3.25 13.0 368
3.50 14.0 396
3.75 15.0 425
4.0 16.0 453

brian ireland

Anyway 10g is nothing. Thanks Again:D

SadieSue

Weird I did another check at it says 120g lol I reckon its around there.. give or take.

rubadub

SadieSue wrote: »

Weird I did another check at it says 120g lol I reckon its around there.. give or take.

Its always going to vary, if you compressed flour into a cup it would weigh more, if you had really light airy flour it would weigh less. This is why I hate recipes calling for volumes.

I have a hobby that relies on very exact proportions for a mixture, most forums on it have US members and I have never found a weight based recipe and have asked loads of times. There are literally thousands of posts of recipes, all volume based and none seem to even see this as a problem -and it is huge problem as they are always bickering about their ratios being best -when really they could all be using the same weight ratios.

PeggyvB

1 cup is roughly 1 teacupful. As for the density, it true that most American recipes don't go by weight. They will, however, say should the flour need to be sifted.:D

irish_goat

A lot of measuring jugs have cup measurements on them so check if you own one.

nesbitt

You can get a Tala dry ingredients measuring cup in Argos 8euro. Gives different cup measures for different dry ingredients. Lovely retro item too...:)

RJC09

tesco have a small measuring jug which has a cup, half cup, third cup, quarter cup marking on it. think i paid about €1 for it. they also sell the measuring cups for about €4 if you wanted them.

Darkginger

You can also buy a set of plastic 1 cup, 1/2 cup, 1/3 cup, 1/4 cup and 1/8 cup measures in most €1 shops. Widely available, and they take the guesswork out of it.